Catherine Taylor

Contributor

Catherine Taylor is a contributor to The Irish Times.

Fiction in translation: from a masterpiece of postwar guilt to femicide in Brazil

Fiction in translation

The best fiction in translation of 2023

The last round-up of 2023 has books from Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy and Peru

August is Women in Translation month: try these

To celebrate we are featuring books from Egypt, Morocco/France, Norway, Uruguay, Argentina and Germany

April’s best new translated fiction

Including new works in translation from Argentina, France, Sweden, Iraq, Thailand, and Rwanda

This month’s best new translations: Haunted houses and haunted people

Voices from Argentina, Turkey, France, Brazil, Iceland and Colombia

Six books in honour of Women in Translation Month

Brief reviews of The Pachinko Parlour, Dogs of Summer, Getting Lost, All Our Yesterdays, Here Be Icebergs and Boulder

Works in translation: Short stories from Ukraine and a compelling novella

The latest in translated literature from Ukraine, Chile, South Korea, Italy and the Netherlands

Kurkov to Zabuzhko: contemporary Ukrainian authors at a glance

Since 1991 there has been a resurgence of books written in, and translated from, Ukrainian

Works in translation: A round-up of the best in fiction and non-fiction

Books from Argentina, Denmark, Norway and Germany, including a wartime classic

Translated fiction round-up: Piercing Icelandic novel about coercive relationship

Plus works from Nina Berberova, Evelina Santangelo, Julián Fuks, Iris Hanika, Mario Levrero

Translated books round-up: Dazzling debuts, auto-fiction and more

Reviews: The Faces, Ordesa, Slash and Burn, God 99, Night As It Falls, Kokoschka’s Doll

Translated fiction: Andrés Barba explores the pitiless nature of belonging

Plus new thrills from Lina Wolff, Luis Sagasti, Olja Knezevic and Benjamín Labatut

The Butchers: masterful plot about pandemic and upheaval

Ruth Gilligan’s uncanny novel has a terrible dark heart and is set around the BSE virus

Katalin Street review: Magda Szabó’s piercing exploration of the effects of severe trauma

Szabó charts the intensely linked histories of three neighbouring Hungarian families from 1934–68

Stinging Fly Stories: charting many different Irelands

The champion of new writing celebrates its 20th anniversary with an anthology well worth reading